John Hughes, the producer, writer and director whose 1980s films such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" offered a sharp-eyed look at teenagers and their social habits, has died, according to a statement from his representative. He was 59.
We were scheduled to speak with Steve Martin just after his sound check for a concert in Los Angeles to benefit the city's public libraries. We pulled into the parking structure 45 minutes early when my cell phone rang. It was Martin's publicist.
Although warehouse retailers are limiting specialty rice sales, industry experts say U.S. consumers shouldn't worry that there's a shortage in the making.
Whoopi Goldberg's omission from an Oscar montage – perceived by her and others to be a slight that left the View host in tears – was "an absolute oversight," the award show's producer tells PEOPLE.
In the roles usually played by Steve Martin and Diane Keaton, President and Mrs. Bush are preparing for the upcoming wedding of their daughter Jenna and her fiancé, Henry Hager.
John Hughes, the producer, writer and director whose 1980s films such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" offered a sharp-eyed look at teenagers and their social habits, has died, according to a statement from his representative. He was 59.
We were scheduled to speak with Steve Martin just after his sound check for a concert in Los Angeles to benefit the city's public libraries. We pulled into the parking structure 45 minutes early when my cell phone rang. It was Martin's publicist.
Although warehouse retailers are limiting specialty rice sales, industry experts say U.S. consumers shouldn't worry that there's a shortage in the making.
Whoopi Goldberg's omission from an Oscar montage – perceived by her and others to be a slight that left the View host in tears – was "an absolute oversight," the award show's producer tells PEOPLE.
In the roles usually played by Steve Martin and Diane Keaton, President and Mrs. Bush are preparing for the upcoming wedding of their daughter Jenna and her fiancé, Henry Hager.
U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill got the jury in the Wesley Snipes trial laughing on Tuesday – no small feat in a tax-evasion trial – bringing up Steve Martin and his King Tut routine. From that he launched into the comedian's "How to Make a Million Dollars and Not Pay Taxes."
This year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, which were handed out in a glittering ceremony last night in the nation's capitol, is quite the list of luminaries. Making up the talented quintet are: Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Academy award-winning director Martin Scorsese, singer supreme Diana Ross, actor-comedian Steve Martin and pianist-conductor Leon Fleisher, whose story of losing the use of his right hand was told in the 2007 Academy Award-nominated short subject documentary, "Two Hands."
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Steve Martin scholars in search of a thesis topic are encouraged to analyze the inspiration the complicated comedian draws from the mysteries of his own pants. Consider: Martin's great, silent stage act, ''The Great Flydini,'' consists of pulling an abundance of objects from his open zipper. And now in "The Pink Panther," playing the role of bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau, first made famous by Peter Sellers in Blake Edwards' 1964 caper of the same name, Martin once again brings his trousers to the party.
George Atkinson asked a simple question in 1977 that changed history: Did anybody watch a movie more than once? To find out, Atkinson bought two copies--one VHS, one Betamax--of each of the 50 vide...
In a freewheeling ceremony with a high laugh quotient, Steve Martin was honored during film promotion group American Cinematheque's 19th annual fundraiser Friday at the Beverly Hilton .
As movies prepare to go from fast-paced and gas-guzzling this summer to introspective and Oscar-aspiring in the fall, let's have a look at films that might be picking moviegoers' pockets a scant 10 months from now.
Investigators in Ohio will conduct tests on a bullet taken from a minivan Wednesday afternoon to determine if the vehicle and its driver were the target of another highway shooting in the Columbus area.
Ballistics tests confirm that a bullet that struck an SUV yesterday in Licking County, Ohio, is linked to 23 other shootings near Columbus, the task force investigating the shootings said Sunday.
Gunfire struck an SUV east of Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday in a shooting that appears linked to a spate of others nearby and is another sign that the shooter may be becoming bolder, police said.
Investigators trying to solve a string of highway shootings near Columbus, Ohio, now have a description of the shooter who fired on two vehicles a day earlier.
Authorities in Ohio said Thursday they want to talk to the owners of four vehicles captured in grainy images on a gas station's videotape about one of the 18 related shootings along Interstate 270 near Columbus.
The claim sounds almost outlandish enough to be a headline on the Onion: "Satire Website Shows Profit." But it's true, and the site it describes is none other than TheOnion.com, the scathingly funn...
Because comedians tend to be loners, there is no such thing as the American Humor Association. But if there were, the seven-year-old U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, which is held every winter in Aspen, ...
Hungry and alone? Whatever you do, don't believe everything you see in the movies. In the 1984 film The Lonely Guy, Steve Martin's forlorn protagonist picks a busy restaurant. "Are you alone?" asks...
WELCOME TO A FRESH FINANCIAL ERA, THE decade of the new investor. Consider: -- Since Jan. 1, 1990, the proportion of American households that own stocks either directly or through mutual funds has ...
Martin Balsam: Is she or isn't she? George Peppard: Is she or isn't she what? Martin Balsam: A phony. George Peppard: I don't know. I don't think so. Martin Balsam: She's a phony, but she's a real ...
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